How to pass ACCA exams

The ACCA F5 paper Performance Management is one of the tougher papers at this level, students tend to struggle to pass this exam first time so it’s important to be sure you have covered all areas of the syllabus and have enough mock exam practice.

Free Online ACCA Study Texts

Keeping costs down when studying ACCA is crucial, with this in mine you can pick up a free online verions of the F5 study text here.

Astranti offer members their free study texts for ALL levels of the ACCA and it’s well worth signing up for. They can be accessed anywhere with an internet connection.

How to pass the ACCA F5 exam

Achieving a pass mark in the F5 ACCA paper is no mean feat. To give yourself the best possible chance, BPP and ACCA have put together a series of videos on what to expect on exam day and F5 exam technique.

ACCA Master Classes

Astranti F5 Performance Management master class is a great way to prepare yourself for passing the F5 ACCA exam first time. It aims to re-enforce the knowledge you have learnt along the way and gives you the opportunity to ask the tutor real time questions.

Alternatively, students who access the recorded master class (after the scheduled class date) you have the benefit of seeing other students questions.

How to pass the ACCA F3 exam

Achieving the 50% pass mark needed for the F3 Financial Accounting paper can be a tricky task, but if you have the right preparation and enough exam practice then passing the exam is well within reach.

Here is a video below from BPP on how to approach the exam and what to expect on exam day:

There is also an excellent video here from the ACCA that is part of their examiner interview series on the examiners recommendation on how to approach the F3 paper.

ACCA Master Classes

As well as the online and printable versions of the ACCA study text, Astranti also run ACCA master classes for all levels of the qualification.

The specialist ACCA tutor will guide you through the most examinable topics.

There is a specific focus on difficult past questions ensuring you are ready for whatever the exam has in store.

It will include how to improve your exam technique, which can score you those all important extra marks in the exam.

Interactive questions and answers session with the tutor.

In total you will get over 10 hours of tuition spread over the course of two days (if you attending the master class live) and they are a great tool for students who are revising for their next ACCA exam and want to achieve a pass first time.

Passing the ACCA exams, much like any qualification, get harder as you progress through the different levels. The early fundamental papers have very good pass rates, which illustrates that students are comfortable with the exams and ACCA see these early papers as way to give students the footing they need to progress further down the line.

ACCA Fundamentals Exam Pass Rates 2014-2016

F1 Accountant in Business has a very good pass rate with over 4 out of 5 students passing the exam. However, the pass rate does dip for the F2 and F3 papers.

Students would be advised to be aware that extra effort is needed for these slighter tougher papers.

Another interesting trend is that F4 Corporate and Business Law has quite a high pass rate – which may be seen as surprising as ACCA students would feel more comfortable with numerical papers rather than law and theory behind it.

Perhaps the toughest paper at this level, based on previous pass rates, is the F5 Performance management. Again, extra effort should be applied to this paper – of course each student has their own particular strengths and weaknesses.

ACCA Professional Exam Pass Rates 2014-2016

Generally speaking, all of the compulsory professional papers P1, P2 and P3 have on average a 50% pass rate.

While the optional papers are much tougher and it’s clear that students struggle to pass these papers. In sames cases – the June 2015 sitting of the P5 Advanced Performance Management – only 28% of the students passed the exam.

There is, of course, no easy paper with facing the ACCA exams but trends suggest that the Performance Management papers (P5 and F5) are tough tasks, while students are excelling at the F4 Corporate and Business Law – perhaps the change from numerical based to theory is a welcome relief for students and they really apply themselves to the law.